I asked this question on StackOverflow but I'm not getting any response there, so I'm posting it here hoping that someone can shed some light on this.

I noticed that a DB insert with floating numbers using HHVM is cutting off the decimal part. In the example below, the value actually stored in the MySQL database is 7.00. The MySQL field is a decimal field.

DB::table('test')->insert([
    [
        'name'        => 'Some name',
        'description' => 'Some description',
        'price'       => 7.99
    ]);

When using PHP instead of HHVM, the value is stored correctly. Also, when replacing 7.99 with '7.99' (as a string) using HHVM, the value is also stored correctly.

Is this an incompatibility between Laravel's insert() function and HHVM, or am I overlooking something here?